Readit Newsmcone commented on Show HN: Imgur for Markdown jotbird.com/... · Posted by u/mcone
What's wrong with GitHub gists, pastebin, or the 100s of other existing options?
GitHub Gists look like a code repo, Pastebin looks like a code paste. JotBird pages look like normal web pages. Ever try sharing a Gist with someone who's never used GitHub?
https://www.jotbird.com
A small tool that does one thing: publish Markdown and give you a link—no accounts, no setup, no project scaffolding. Paste or write Markdown, click Publish, and you get a human-readable URL you can share immediately. You can update or delete the page later using the same link.
The idea came from frustration with how oddly hard it still is to put a Markdown document on the web without turning it into a repo, a static site, or a login-gated doc. JotBird is editor-light but publishing-first, and I’m now exploring CLI and editor integrations so it can act as a simple publishing layer for tools people already use.
mcone commented on Show HN: JotBird – A simple Markdown editor with one-click publishing jotbird.com... · Posted by u/mcone
I like your Markdown Guide, and I write extensively (almost exclusively) in Markdown.
But I realized several years ago that offline first is always my first requirement for a tool like this—no SaaS, no subscriptions (or freemiums), no storing important info in yet another cloud, no signups, nothing. I write markdown locally, convert it to whatever I need locally (PDF, EPUB, etc.).
I think I’d use your tool as more of a ‘whiteboard’, where I could temporarily share simple information that’s not critical or private or work-related, that I don’t mind the world seeing. Would I pay for that service? Probably not.
Thank you for the feedback!